Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 201:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Arthur Nortje's Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

  Options:
  A) apartheid
  B) revolution
  C) celebration
  D) violence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 202:

  ''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''

  In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

  Options:
  A) died falling in to a pit
  B) fell victim to man eating crocodiles
  C) was killed by the people of Kutuje
  D) was killed by the Ijekun people.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 203: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 204:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m

  A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  In this passage, the writer

  Options:
  A) creates a mood of suspense
  B) enhances an oppressive atmosphere
  C) describes the man's anger
  D) captures the man's habitual impatience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 205: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.'Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that Options:
  A) soldiers are generally wicked
  B) human nature has to do with a profession
  C) soldiers are characteristically gentle
  D) the latent brutality in man finds expression in war
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 206: In The Victims, the two old women play the role of Options:
  A) guardians of tradition
  B) eavesdroppers
  C) witches
  D) chorus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 207:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Whom do you consider to be Ezeulu's closest friend and confidant in Umuaro?

  Options:
  A) Naka of Umuneora
  B) Ogbuefi Akuebue
  C) Nwokeke Nnaberi
  D) The priest of Idemili
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 209:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A satire employs

  Options:
  A) comedy with the intent to amuse
  B) farce to comment on societal conduct
  C) irony to mock at situations
  D) sarcasm and humour for social criticism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 210:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face

  This act can be interpreted to mean

  Options:
  A) regression into savagery
  B) that he is now fully ready for the dance
  C) an attempt to hide from the other children
  D) an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt
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  The correct answer is A .